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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some keen-eared persons thought the General had said to his colleague: "This is damned rot and ought to be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quibbling and Quarreling | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...However inglorious the role of Leonard Kip Rhinelander in this suit at White Plains, it is his lawyers who cut the poorest figure in the case. For obviously this was an affair that ought to have been settled out of court. No matter what the outcome, there was nothing to be gained by trying the suit; no matter what the Rhinelander family may have thought they were doing when they began the suit, good lawyers, lawyers devoted to the larger interests of their clients, lawyers conscious of their responsibility as members of the court, would have found ways to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reprimand | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...enjoyed the game. They have played it as a matter of duty and many of them have in private conversation supported something very like the policy which the CRIMSON is now advocating. It is not easy for a college football player to say this in public. But no one ought to he misled into assuming that the CRIMSON'S present policy is opposed by most of those who have played on University teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/4/1925 | See Source »

...talks with correspondents the President let it be known: 1) that he is open minded but does not think it would be wise yet to attempt to abolish submarines; limitation is about all that may be hoped for; 2) that he intends to tell Congress again that the U.S. ought to join the World Court; 3) that he has no intention of urging a ship subsidy; 4) that he is soon going to make public the report of the experts appointed to make a study of what should be done with Muscle Shoals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

CRADLE SNATCHERS?If you like to watch matrons who ought to know better dallying with college boys who know no better, you may like this one. Everybody else seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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